Generic Company Place Holder Partition Wizard Home Edition

I can't help it. When I know something's free, I spend the
entire review process waiting for the gotcha to appear. Happily,
the gotcha never came with Partition Wizard Home Edition. The
program just created, deleted, moved, resized, and copied
partitions with no fuss or bother--or error messages. It also
recreated a master boot record, wiped a disk, and even searched
for, found, and recovered a deleted partition with nary a
failure.

The only glitch I found was that the program only functioned
properly when it found errors on a partition, after invoking chkdsk
from within the program. Running chkdsk outside of the program
would not convince it that the problems had been solved.

Still, what more could you ask for? I suppose the ability to run
Partition Wizard under server operating systems. You can have that
too, but you'll have to pony up $120 for the server version or $300
for the Enterprise version which, while expensive, are
competitively priced for that arena. If you're IT'ing it, Partition
Wizard could be worth a look. I haven't tested it extensively in
the field, but it appears reliable and stable enough to give
Acronis Disk Director and Paragon's Hard Disk Manager 2009 Suite a
run for their money.

Partition Wizard's interface is simple and easy to use. All
basic functions are displayed at the top of the window as large
icons as well as on the menus, and more advanced functions like
"wipe disk" are only found on the menu where you're not likely to
choose them accidentally. Like most programs of its ilk, you choose
a series of actions, e.g., delete, resize, move and they're queued
until you hit the apply button.

Partition Wizard is a must-download for anyone who deals with
partition operations on a regular basis. It has a few more features
than Easeus
Partition Master, and there's even a free bootable CD version
available.

--Jon L. Jacobi

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